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Dave Neary

Dave Neary, GNOME Mobile

Dave Neary is the founder of Neary Consulting, specialising in community relations and free software strategy. As a member of the GNOME community, he has been involved in all aspects the organisation of GUADEC since 2005, including a spell as conference chair. He has served three terms as a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation (2005 - 07), and was chairman of the board in 2006, and treasurer in 2007,where he oversaw massive growth in the GNOME advisory board. He created and edited the first annual report of the GNOME Foundation. Dave has participated in free software communities since discovering Linux in 1996. He was a developer and release manager of the GIMP from 1999 until 2006. He organised the 2005 GIMP Developers Conference as part of GUADEC in Kristiansand, and in 2006 founded the Libre Graphics Meeting, a conference which brings together developers and users of free software graphics software ranging from infrastructure like LittleCMS and cairo to applications including the GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and Scribus.

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